I told myself I would stop playing until Karok came out but I recently started again and hit level 26 in about a 2 days with Fiona. It was alright. Now that I know he's coming out soon I guess I will wait again.

Ok, so, my friends and I are very curious about this game. Looks totally badass. What we want to know is, just for regular gameplay, how much is this going to cost us? I know there's no sub fee or anything, but I understand there's some sort of token system for getting into battles?

The game costs $0 to play. What costs money is customization (underwear, hairstyle, tattoos, etc) and enhancing your weapon. Enhancing is free, but from +6 to +10 it has a chance to reset to +0, and above that has a chance to destroy your weapon. You can buy enhancement runes, which eliminate the chance of resetting. I got a +8 with free enhancing, but buying runes guarantees a +10. This only matters for level cap though (and still is completely unnecessary)... until then you'll just keep getting new weapons.

Basically the cash shop is entirely optional. Especially since this is a co-op game, so just getting a decent weapon is all that matters as long as you're a decent player. Many of the best players in this game make a point of never spending anything in the cash shop.